IE 9

[zlim]

Is it possible to block ads in IE as I do in FF with ABP?

I don't own the computer running IE 9 Win 7 SP1 64 bit. These folks are in their 80's and it was a leap for them to learn Win 7 after running Windows 2000 so I'm not about to ask them to switch from a browser they have used for decades. (since windows 95).

 

I did change the search to google, which they are used to and told them do not click on the links in the sponsored block, move down the page further to see the true search results.

 

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I found something that might work. TPL stands for Tracking Protection List

Here is one from Fanboy to add

http://www.fanboy.co.nz/ie.html

 

I'll have to test it on my netbook to see how it works.

 

I went here: http://www.iegallery.com/PinnedSites

clicked on Tracking Protection lists and selected Fanboy AdBlock.

 

I'm posting this from IE 9.

I'll have to do a bit more testing to see how well it works.

Edited May 1, 2013 by zlim

[Corrine]

TPL's plus ActiveX filtering (also under Safety) helps.

 

This list is by ABP:

 

Name EasyPrivacy Tracking Protection List

Address http://easylist-msie.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.tpl

 

A couple others to check out. Abine has a good reputation.

 

Name All privacychoice Ad Networks

Address http://www.privacychoice.org/trackerblock/all_companies_tpl

 

Name Abine Tracking Protection List

Address http://www.abine.com/tpl/abineielist.txt

 

More about TPL's and ActiveX filtering in my old blog post at Internet Explorer 9, Privacy and Security Enhancements. Note in particular the link to Ed Bott's article and "Remember: Allow rules trump Block rules."

[crp]

The TPL works quite well for me in IE9. I did not have good results with any of the free add-ons that do ad blocking in IE9. either blocking was close to useless or it caused flakiness in the performance of the browser. Including a favorite of mine from FF/SM/PM, AdBlock Plus. Just use their list, not their software.

One thing that I do with AdBlock Plus which I really need to look into doing in IE9 is custom filter groups.

I don't mind the ads when i got mail.com , but i hate the news feed/scroll/frame on the mail.com login page. So I dug into the page using the 'Inspect Element' tool , mined the url's and created filters for them. Much better, now I can get into that email in peace.

[zlim]

Thanks Corrine and crp. Looks like I have some more reading and testing to do.

I NEVER use IE so I'm stumbling around.

[goretsky]

Hello,

 

As a complementary solution, you might want to look into a hosts file-based blocking solution as well as a lightweight local web server app for banner substitution.

 

Regards,

 

Aryeh Goretsky

 

[Guest LilBambi]

I know host based is easiest, but it's also the most frustrating. That was one of the best things about moving to Firefox and Google Chrome, a good way to block ads, and still easily whitelist or disable on sites you need to be able to allow on the fly or on a one off system with Adblock Plus, and Do Not Track Plus, or Ghostery, etc.

 

That list in the article from Ed Bott was quite telling noting all lists are not created equally:

 

Publisher Block Allow

EasyList 2,189 47

PrivacyChoice 463 1

Abine 94 0

TRUSTe 0 3,958

 

All data current as of February 12, 2011.

Edited May 5, 2013 by LilBambi

[zlim]

I was there earlier this week, finishing my cleaning of the computer (ESET online scanner found 4 additional trojans which have now been nuked - yeah ESET!) and I installed two TPLs on the computer. I showed them they don't need to worry about blank spaces on the Comcast start page and Juno webmail because that's where the ads used to appear. They saw and understand. So all is good.

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions.

Edited May 5, 2013 by zlim